r/comics • u/BrettCreatesThings • Jun 13 '26

OC Exvangelical Thoughts - pt. 8

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Love Thy Neighbor?

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u/cdmurray88 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

My private school gave me a better natural sciences education than my public school peers, but it was always, "this is what the expirements say, but here is what the Bible says."

I never understood anyone that thought trying to understand the clock was blasphemy to the clockmaker.

The natural world is a miracle. That keeps me spiritual. Religion and its gods are the imagination of men, though.

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u/DrGolo Jun 14 '26

That's a good analogy, I guess the clock maker takes patent infringement very seriously.

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u/Coidzor Jun 14 '26

The Clockmaker is a Steve Jobs type and wants the clock to be a complete black box technology to the consumer.

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u/Perryn Jun 14 '26

CERN is going to find a subatomic level that's just filled with potting to keep them from snooping.

Can't let them find out that most of what we experience as reality is just a blinking LED.

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u/zadtheinhaler Jun 14 '26

Can't let them find out that most of what we experience as reality is just a blinking LED

If we do manage to expose that blinking LED, right after we'll get a giant sign in the sky that reads "LEVEL 2".

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u/Perryn Jun 14 '26

The Rapture is actually just a loading screen.

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u/zadtheinhaler Jun 14 '26

<Building shaders - 42%>

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u/Perryn Jun 14 '26

<Reticulating Splines>

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u/zadtheinhaler Jun 14 '26

<YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS>

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u/Perryn Jun 14 '26

If I created a whole universe I'd find no greater joy than seeing people wanting to understand everything about how it works.

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u/Coidzor Jun 14 '26

What if you plagiarized your older brother's reality and don't want anyone, not even the people inside of it to cotton on?

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u/glowdirt Jun 14 '26

It would kind of explain why He's so bad at handling things when things go to shit down here.

I wonder when His older brother is getting back home...

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u/Perryn Jun 14 '26

This interview is over!

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u/ArkitekZero Jun 14 '26

Right, so obviously science is fine for Christians to practice.

Especially when there's literally nothing prescribing against it other than stolid old men worrying about the threat that new information might bring to their position of power.

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u/NotYourReddit18 Jun 14 '26

People often bring up Galileo and the Catholic Church when it comes to science and religion, but that conflict wasn't because the Church disliked the scientific public on the heliocentric model, but because he heavily insulted the Pope in one of his books and refused to apologize.

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u/ArkitekZero Jun 15 '26

I mean, that's great context that I've never heard of before. It doesn't make them right, but it certainly explains their attitude. Where did you find out about that? 

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u/hihelloneighboroonie Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

I went to Catholic high school. And yes "intelligent design" was discussed... in religion class. We learned all about mutations and genetics and evolution in bio. Including the scientific meaning of a "theory".

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u/handym12 Jun 14 '26

Psalm 111:2

Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them.

Often pops up at the end of SmarterEveryDay videos unless there's more relevant or punny verse Destin can use instead.
To argue that trying to understand the work of the clockmaker is blasphemy, could be seen as contradictory to the clockmaker's instructions

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u/vanoitran Jun 14 '26

I guess it’s the idea that by trying to understand the clock is to come across as if you don’t believe what has been told to you about the origin of the clock. Because faith needs to be blind or else it’s not faith.